Tag: Top Five
Top Five Acts that Make Your Activism Not Grass-Roots
Too often activists and social change organizations identify themselves as grass-roots, which is clearing defined and articulated by many social movements, scholars, activists, and authors. While, grass-roots, is so clearing defined, people and organizations like to claim grass-roots, because it fosters authenticity. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Grass-roots means no employees as those employees are the ones making […]
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November 2018 – Top Five Problematic Tactics for Animal Liberation
Here are the Top Five Problematic Tactics that are EXCLUSIVE Within the Animal Liberation Movement. ICAS, which is made up of activist-scholars, is proud of promoting total liberation and intersectionality in the animal liberation movement. Here are some small and larger complex tactics that can exclude people from the cause. We bring this up, not […]
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May 2018 Top Five Books on Animal Liberation and Blackness
May 2018 Top Five Books on Animal Liberation and Blackness ______________ The Nature of Whiteness explores the intertwining of race and nature in postindependence Zimbabwe. Nature and environment have played prominent roles in white Zimbabwean identity, and when the political tide turned against white farmers after independence, nature was the most powerful resource they had […]
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November Top Five Mistakes in Critical Animal Studies
TOP FIVE MISTAKES ABOUT CRITICAL ANIMAL STUDIES Critical Animal Studies is only for academics Critical Animal Studies is not rooted in anarchism, it is, as the founders stressed that in the beginning and defined it as such. Critical Animal Studies is not rooted in intersectionality, it is, as the founders stressed that in the beginning. […]
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July Top Five Hip Hop Vegans
1. Russell Simmons, a vegan, is CEO of Rush Communications, he cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Dead Prez is a Hip Hop duo composed of stic.man and M-1, formed in 1996 in New York City, who promote veganism and […]
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June 2017 Top Five Prison Abolition Books
All Things Censored by Mumia Abu-Jamal “More than 75 essays—many freshly composed by Mumia with the cartridge of a ball-point pen, the only implement he is allowed in his death-row cell—embody the calm and powerful words of humanity spoken by a man on Death Row. Abu-Jamal writes on many different topics, including the ironies that […]
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February 2016 Top Five – Books by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal a former Black Panther Party member and a current political prisoner in Pennsylvania, United States. He is an award winning journalist with many publications. He can be reached by visiting his site at: http://mumiaabujamal.com/ While all of his writing and books are powerful and important to read, to keep to the Top Five […]
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